WaPo: Work will be a thing of the past?! ‘Workers around the world are suffering from excessive heat fueled by climate change’
Scorching heat is driving down economic productivity around the world An Indian girl splashes her face with water to keep off the heat as her mother works at a nearby road construction project on a hot summer afternoon in New Delhi in 2014. (AP/Saurabh Das) From construction workers in Dubai to farmers in India, workers around […]
‘At war with itself’: Obama Dept of Energy says Obama EPA climate rule to cost 400,000 jobs
Testifying before Congress, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy says that the Obama Department of Energy is wrong with its analysis that the Agency’s Clean Power Plan will “reduce economic growth, increase electricity costs, and result in almost 400,000 jobs lost over the next 15 years”. McCarthy: “That is exactly opposite of what we believe will happen […]